johnfl68 has asked for the
wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello:

Is there a way to easily include external variables?

I have about a half dozen scripts that have a good deal of variables that are the same in all of them. Things like font file locations, look-up tables, etc. It would be nice if I could put these all in a common file, and then just include that file like a module. Things like this and many more:

A true module should do the job for you, but it is generally considered poor practice to export variables. In your case they are used as contants that are widely used in your application. You would not be concerned about "polluting" symbol space or accidentally changing their values. Go for it.